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 WARS, CONFLITS AND STRATEGY ON 1st FEBRUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on February 1, 2019

1662: In Taiwan, after a nine-month siege, the Dutch entrenched in fort  Zeelandia surrender to Chinese General Koxinga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Zeelandia_(Taiwan)
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/320.html

1789: Chinese troops are driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long (Hanoi)

1942: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls–Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater, up to March 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalls%E2%80%93Gilberts_raids
http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Raids/USN-CN-Raids-1.html

1943: Japanese forces on Guadalcanal Island, defeated by Marines, start to withdraw after the Japanese emperor finally gives them permission
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japanese-begin-evacuation-of-guadalcanal

1951: United Nations General Assembly declares China an aggressor country in Korea War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-n-condemns-prc-for-aggression
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1951/feb/01/korea-united-nations-resolution

1955: The US Congress ratifies the Treaty of Manila (Seato)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization

1964: U.S. and South Vietnamese naval forces initiate Operation Plan (Oplan) 34A, which calls for raids by South Vietnamese commandos, operating under American orders, against North Vietnamese coastal and island installations
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-plan-34a-commences
http://ausvets.tripod.com/oplan34a.htm

1968: During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Vietcong officer with a pistol shot to the head. A famous picture that shocked the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrsw6m9UOY

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42864421

1984: China and Netherlands regain diplomatic relations downed to chargé d’affaires level in May 1981 after the sale of submarines to Taiwan
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/1530.html

1985: In Cambodia, Vietnamese forces launch a large scale offensive against Khmer Rouge

2002: Daniel Pearl, an American journalist kidnapped by Al-Qaida group is murdured in Karachi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/1461368/Daniel-Pearl-refused-to-be-sedated-before-his-throat-was-cut.html
http://www.danielpearl.org/

2004: In a letter send to General Musharraf, the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb and national hero, Abdul Qadeer Khan, recognizes to have sell nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3343621.stm

2010: Japanese officials lodged a formal protest after Russian coast guards fired on two Japanese fishing boats close to a group of disputed islands
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/02/20102124818998458.html